Infantile Eczema

Infantile Eczema normally appears in 2 forms; Wet or Dry. In Wet Eczema, the skin is red, inflamed and oozing with blisters. In Dry Eczema, the skin is dry, leathery and cracked. It can also exfoliate a lot with plenty of skin flakes for you to clear up.

Wet Eczema Natural Treatment

The best thing to do is simply keep your child’s skin dry. Using clay baths is extremely soothing and useful.

All you do is put a handful of Argiletz clay in the bath and this will keep the skin free from infection. You can use either the white or green variety of Argiletz Clay.

Do not use soap. Gently use a soft flannel to clean your child’s skin.

Apply a generous amount of Forever Living Aloe Vera gelly to eczema patches to soothe and calm the red, inflamed eczema patches.

Put on loose cotton clothing. Preferably 1 or 2 sizes up.

Dry Eczema Natural Treatment

Instead of using Clay for baths, use Dead Sea Salts – 1 handful in the bath and 1 handful of freshly ground oatmeal. Also add 3 tablespoons of Extra Virgin Olive oil to the bath. Take care when stepping out of the bath.

Moisturise damp skin with Aloe Vera Gelly mixed with 2 tablespoons of Olive oil or Shea butter if the skin is cracked.

You do not need to use soap except Turkish Olive Oil Soap for hairy parts.

ohhh I have a little baby cousin that has a very sensitive skin. I has eczema, my uncle and aunt have been trying to cure the baby from it, but eczema always comes back. I like I should share with them this article. I consider that your recommendations can help.

Great information here! A friend of mine has a son that suffers from Eczema. I’ll definitely be forwarding her this information and she does prefer to go the more natural route instead of prescription medicine. She has had a lot of luck with essential oils similar to what you mentioned in your post. Thanks for providing this valuable info!

We had terrible problems with my youngest’s skin when he was a baby – the eczema seemed to come from nowhere when he was a couple of months old, and it was quite severe.

We finally had an expert look into it and he discovered that the eczema was caused by a severe reaction to dairy products (like you mention in the article above!). We cut out the ‘traditional’ feeds and formulas and went onto special dairy free versions – he cleared up within the week!

He’s four now and seems to have got over this skin condition and reaction to dairy.

Excellent and just excellent write up for little eczema sufferers. Every line is filled with value one can benefit from

One of my family members had a patch of dry eczema and using a topical Vitamin-D ointment. Eczema can be a manifestation of internal vitamin-D deficiency. This deficiency can impact the entire body because every cell of our body has Vitamin-D receptors.

Your solution to eczema seems mostly natural. I like using cotton, washable carpets at home.

I never thought about an infant having eczema. But with a grandson on the way I should bookmark this because my daughter may need it.

Hopefully her son will never need to treat this but it’s always good to know that there are options in treating the eczema.It makes sense to avoid foods that could cause this because I would think it would be the same with adults.

Do you recommend the wet or dry treatment as one being better than the other?

As I mentioned earlier, there are 2 different types of eczema. Wet eczema needs to be treated and dried out. Dry eczema needs to be moistened.

Hope this is clear for you. Both treatments are used to deal with both types of eczema and both ways are effective. I used to have wet eczema. As I grew much older, my skin became drier and it became dry eczema.

Babies normally cry when the skin is rubbed. My son used to shout the place down when I changed his nappy on a changing mat. He had a patch of eczema on the back of his head and the mat was irritating it. I changed the flannel I used to a muslin cloth.

He felt better after that. I gave him Neocate baby formula and he healed within 3 weeks of drinking it. Phew!

As I child I used to suffer from dry eczema and really struggled to find a cure for many years. I really wish someone had written an article like this one for me with loads of different ways to help it. I’m confident that you will be helping many people out with this. Thank you for sharing 🙂

Yes you are right. When we were children, we had to go through a lot of medicine and a lot of suffering. Although I liked soaking in a potassium pomanganate bath, that does not mean it was healthy for me. And also the zinc paste wrap bandages…

Thank you for sharing with us this great post.You have done a great work.Many people think that they can treat any disease by medicine bought to pharmacy but they forget that our environment is the store of miraculous plants which heal any kind of disease

Infantile Eczema is frequent for kids and parents are always worried about their babies health.This post is a great help for them

Hey Stella! How are you? I’ve really enjoyed reading this article as it’s informative and interesting. I’ve been diagnosed with Infactile Eczema when I was a kid. My mom still tells me that there was a point when she fed me with 2 Kilos of cucumber a week. I literally used to eat raw cucumbers with salt and pepper and try to add them in lots of smoothies and juices just like you mentioned. If you’re looking for a natural way, this is the best and fastest way!!!

I had an eczema almost all my life. I am worried that my kid might inherit this from me so I am checking your website. It has quite a lot of useful information let me tell you that. I am really satisfied. I will take your advice on dry eczema. I will make cucumber juice smoothies, since I was suffering from dry eczema mostly.

However, i did not have it as an infant but from when I turned 7 years. Ever since I am doing big combination of nutrition, health products and hygiene to clean my skin.

I definitely agree that house itself can cause skin problems. Like air and dust. You are right when you say that air must be clean and the dust has to be lowered to minnimum.

I will definitely bookmark your website. Thank you for this amazing article.

I have been struggling with Eczema since my childhood, its dry Eczema. I have visited so many docters and I my parents Have spend a lot of money buying different ailments and have used so many reccommended products, unfortunately, it would return after a short period. I have seen some symptoms recently and I am searching for some recommendations. Does your recommendations work with grown ups suffering from Eczema?

I suffered from severe eczema for 15 years and managed to clear it using the methods described. So yes, all the methods I describe are useful for adults too. I used all of them over a period of 15 years but not all at once.

Eczema is treatable with nature but we must care for our skin when it needs our help.

Poor babies! They are so miserable when they are sick or have things like eczema! What causes eczema? I see you have listed a lot of things to avoid like dust and other allergens. Do they cause it or do they merely cause problems with the eczema or irritate it further? My granddaughter suffers occasionally. Since she lives with me full-time, I want to be able to keep the house in a way that won’t cause or irritate her condition.

Thank you for the very good advice on dealing with the two types of infant eczema. She has the dry kind. I didn’t realize there were different ones. So much to learn! Thank you again!

It is so surprising to know that even aloe can treat eczema; the aloe that is almost everywhere in my home area but I didn’t know that it can play a huge role. I used to use a soap but now that I have leaned I will simply go for the aloe vera and olive oil.

Hi! Thank you very much for this great post! Very informative! We had been a bit stressed. Wet Eczema was causing us all this anxiety. And the solution is so easy. Clay baths have proven to be a wonderful remedy. Always having Argiletz clay at hand in the house put our distress to rest.

Excellent, we just had a baby boy addition to the family and I want to be able to help in his health care. This is a wonderful way to start my education and be better equipped to be the best great uncle I can be. I want to be able to come back to this site over and over again in order to get this information readily. Thank you for your thoughtful and thorough article.

Great informative article! I have a nephew who is suffering from wet infantile eczema which developed somewhat all of a sudden without any probable cause and it is disturbing him for last 1 year. It seems to get completely cured sometimes then suddenly it again shows remission. Or family is really worried because of that. Thank you Stella for this wonderful; article. I am sharing this with my brother so that he take the necessary actions for Shrish (my nephew).

It is good to know that natural treatments can work for eczema troubles. Maybe of our alergies and other type of symptoms are now due to the environment, something that wasn’t the case many years ago. But it is maybe a dumb question but how does some get eczema? Is it from birth? Stress? I think there’s different types of eczema isn’t?